ernment, right? So why should you and I pay a bunch of taxes for American defense and American government but it's just going to help some company that I don't own stock in? Like why would I be doing that? Doesn't it make more sense if we help you, you help us? So that's all Trump is doing. He's saying if we're going to help you get into this market and protect you, we should get a taste. So maybe it's a good idea.

Mexico's president has taken the side of Venezuela's Maduro, who has been attacked by Trump and the administration as being a terrorist and a drug trafficker. And he's being accused by the US government of being a leader of the Cartel de los Soles which is responsible for drug trafficking. Now I've never really seen this before. Maybe it's happened before but they're not even treating him like he's the head of the government. They're treating him like he's the head of the cartel that just happened to have conquered a government. And this will be interesting because once you say the guy's head of a cartel, it feels like there's nothing that we wouldn't be willing to do to him. So if Maduro gets taken out, you shouldn't be too surprised, right?

China has begun construction on the world's biggest hydropower project, water power. Apparently there's this enormous river in China and they've got this almost unimaginably ambitious project to conquer it and turn it into an energy supply. 167 billion dollar facility and it will be an engineering miracle if they can pull it off which people think they can. But did you know that China imports nearly a quarter of its energy supply? A quarter of its energy supply. So they're trying to, China is trying to become more self-sufficient. It's bigger than the Three Gorges. I believe it's going to be bigger than that. Anyway, so it feels like the war that China and the US are in is to see who can become less dependent on the other the fastest. And China's going to work on becoming energy independent and we're going to work on having our own manufacturing I guess, having our own rare earth minerals.

Speaking of which, a startup called Vulcan Elements has raised 65 million in the US to create rare earth magnets. So that's what we're doing. We're going as hard as we can on rare earth and they're going as hard as they can on energy because we live in this big connected world. And I hate to say it, but it's the economic requirement that we all have to live off of each other that probably keeps us from going to war. I'm a little bit afraid if the big powers become self-sufficient with everything because if we don't have a little bit of dependence on those other countries, it's going to be kind of easier to get into a war. So we'll see.

According to The Atlantic, the world's population collapse, I'm sorry, let me take a drink. I don't know what's wrong with my throat today. That's better. The baby shortage is worse than you think and we're going to have a worldwide collapse faster than the experts thought. Bu